I'm posting now to apologize.
IX
Saya Ito
Jasmine whipped her head around. "That's a giant crab!" She yelled.
Saya drew her dagger and got out of the car. Jasmine turned her necklace into the gun and quickly followed. Allison fiddled with the child lock in the back seat and eventually decided to stab it with her sword, opening the door.
"The only giant crab in Greek Mythology is Cancer. The zodiac sign?" Saya said.
"So, do we give it chemotherapy?" Jasmine yelled, taking a shot at it with her modified airsoft gun and running at it with her switchblade.
"Its shell is almost impenetrable. We have to find the weak spot," Saya called. "The bigger claw on a male crab is called the crusher. It crushes the bones of its prey. The smaller one is for grabbing!" Jasmine was grabbed by the crab's small monstrous pincer. She was thrown on top of a McDoonalds.
"You okay?" Saya screeched up to Jasmine at the top of her lungs.
"I'm loovin' it," Jasmine groaned.
Allison and Saya stood thirty feet away from Cancer, but it was closing the distance quickly. "Allison, distract it. I'll try to find the chink in its armor." Allison started running around the crab, waving her sword around, trying to distract it while looking for any skeletons or zombies she could use.
Saya ran off, and jumped onto the crab, using the legs as a platform. She tried to keep her balance, hanging on to the crab's exoskeleton. "The crab's shell only goes so far. I can try to stab its sides, where it isn't protected," She reported. Allison gave a thumbs up, and Jasmine was trying to climb down the building, using the bricks as hand and footholds. The crab suddenly started shaking vigorously. It had noticed her, she needed a bigger distraction. She decided that Hedwig needed to stretch her wings anyway.
"Hedwig!" The enormous owl flew over and hooted loudly. "Distract the crab!" She ordered. Hedwig spiraled down, flying in front of the crab's eyes. The crab diverted it's attention and snapped at her, but she escaped just in time. But instead of making the crab stop trying to shake Saya off, it just shook her around more. Saya flew off of the crab, slamming into the concrete. She tried standing up but felt a bolt of pain go up her left leg. The limb collapsed, and Saya fell back down.
Allison raced back to the car and stabbed at a window. She opened a backpack and pulled out a Zoploc bag of ambrosia.
"Saya, catch!" Allison chucked the bag to Saya.
Saya caught the bag and quickly ate some ambrosia. It tasted like the sushi her grandmother used to make. Ah.. the good times. She felt her leg start to feel better Managing to stand up, she ran back at the crab. Allison raised some skeletons, and they ran with Saya to the crab. They boosted her back up onto Cancer. Jasmine weakly took her gun in her left hand and shot at the crab's shell, missing but distracting it.
Saya swung down to the spot where the crab was most vulnerable and stabbed it. The crab started to turn to dust. The dust drifted away, but too slowly. The crab could still move. Saya realized this too late. The crab shook her off unexpectedly. She fell to the ground with a loud thud. She was too shaken to realize what was happening when the right pincer came looming down in front of her.
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Hedwig swooped down and clawed Cancer's eyes. The crab reared back and just before it tried to smack the owl out of the air, it finally deteriorated completely into monster dust like Voldeemort in the last Harry Poter movie.
"Oof, thanks Hedwig," Saya scrambled away from the remains of the crab.
Allison dismissed her skeletons, letting them sink back into the ground. Jasmine put her gun back into its bismuth charm form and rolled off the roof, falling strangely slowly and landing in a hedge. "Oof." She stood up, brushed off the leaves on her, and realized a strand of a spiderweb still clung to her. "Ohmygodsohmygodsohmygods!" she screamed, jumping around for a second and making sure its eight-legged resident didn't follow its house onto her.
Allison just watched and Saya cringed, feeling Jasmine's pain. Spiders really should die.
"What the Hel?" Jasmine suddenly asked, her head whipping around to look at the roof of the McDoonalds. Saya followed her gaze and noticed a spot on the roof that looked like heat waves, though it was chilly outside, as it was April, not July.
Jasmine waved her hand as she did when she wiped away Mist and there appeared a strange nymph-type creature.
She wore a dress made of clouds, so she wasn't mortal, but they were whirling around in the fabric like tornadoes, so she wasn't a cloud nymph, but she wasn't trying to kill them, so she wasn't a venti. She looked about their age and had chocolate-colored skin and black pixie-cut hair. "Who are you?" Saya asked, carefully trying not to offend her in case she was a goddess of some sort.
She effortlessly rose off the roof of the McDoonalds and darted down to stand right in front of Saya. "Tori. Pin baklava Tori."
Jasmine slowly walked over. "That's your name? Pin?"
She shook her head. "Tori."
"Okay. May I ask why you said the rest of those words?" Saya asked.
Tori rolled her eyes. "Russia who."
Allison looked interested. "You sound like you're chattering."
Tori nodded. "Tie."
"Like a ghost. Or…"
"Russia."
"A Spirit." Allison translated.
"Like the language of magic?"
"Tie."
"Okay, I get it now," Jasmine said, Allison sort of glaring at her for demigodsplaining. "She speaks like a ghost or an old sorceress for some reason, using word association. Like, take the word… I don't know… Hamilton."
"Hamilton is part of theatre. A theatre is a stage. On a stage, you lie. The god of lies is Loki. Loki is a Viking. Vikings hate wolves. So Hamilton would be wolf," Allison finished.
Saya was utterly confused. "How do you understand it though?"
Jasmine shrugged. "It's just another language, like Spanish or Japanese. You have to stop thinking of it as English and go with it."
"Pin baklava donut. Tokyo baklavas coffee Twotter."
"I am afraid, there are venti around," Jasmine translated. "Well, flip."
Hope you enjoyed! Goodbye, my little sushi rolls! -thesushiqueen